An eight-member city council will be seated to govern Iola starting in April.
The city governance issue was settled once and for all Tuesday when Iolans voted 965 to 734 to reject a charter ordinance that would have seated a hybrid five-member city commission.
So without a charter ordinance to establish any other governing body, the city by default resorts to an eight-member city council — two councilmen from each of Iola’s four voting wards — plus a mayor elected at large.
Iolan Ken Rowe, who spearheaded a petition drive to force Tuesday’s vote, said…
Eight is enough
